Plant Hedeoma pulegioides (Lamiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

American Pennyroyal

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PIPERITENONE	3	Plant	1.0	1410.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITENONE	3	Pollen Or Spore	not available	47000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE	7	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE	7	Plant	12.0	270.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE	7	Pollen Or Spore	not available	9000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUGELONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE	28	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE	28	Leaf	17.0	50.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE	28	Plant	3678.0	27600.0	2.41	Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE	28	Pollen Or Spore	not available	823000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE	28	Stem	0.5	3.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Plant	18.0	90.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Degranulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dentifrice	2	Martindale's 29th
Dermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Diuretic	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Edemagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Encephalopathic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-92.
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Expectorant	7	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
FLavor	15	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	9	Economou, D., and Nahrstedt, A. 1991. Chemical, Physiological, and Toxicological Aspects of the Essential Oil of Some Species of the Genus Bystropogon*. Planta Medica, 57: 347, 1991.
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Fungitoxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrosedative	1	Merck 11th Edition